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(Ronald Reagan)http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (NNoN)Blogger2299125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-8678942698533135930Sun, 04 Dec 2016 11:52:00 +00002016-12-04T12:52:29.334+01:00climate changeextreme weatherglobal warmingExtreme weather expert Roger Pielke Jr. on his "unhappy life as a climate heretic"This is what happens when a top scientist dares to publish something the global warming mafia does not like:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Much to my surprise, I showed up in the WikiLeaks releases before the election. In a 2014 email, a staffer at the Center for American Progress, founded by John Podesta in 2003, took credit for a campaign to have me eliminated as a writer for Nate Silver ’s FiveThirtyEight website. In the email, the editor of the think tank’s climate blog bragged to one of its billionaire donors, Tom Steyer : “I think it’s fair [to] say that, without Climate Progress, Pielke would still be writing on climate change for 538.”</span></i></span><br /><strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">WikiLeaks provides a window into a world I’ve seen up close for decades: the debate over what to do about climate change, and the role of science in that argument. Although it is too soon to tell how the Trump administration will engage the scientific community, my long experience shows what can happen when politicians and media turn against inconvenient research—which we’ve seen under Republican and Democratic presidents.</span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">I understand why Mr. Podesta—most recently Hillary Clinton ’s campaign chairman—wanted to drive me out of the climate-change discussion. When substantively countering an academic’s research proves difficult, other techniques are needed to banish it. That is how politics sometimes works, and professors need to understand this if we want to participate in that arena.</span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">More troubling is the degree to which journalists and other academics joined the campaign against me. What sort of responsibility do scientists and the media have to defend the ability to share research, on any subject, that might be inconvenient to political interests—even our own?</span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">I believe climate change is real and that human emissions of greenhouse gases risk justifying action, including a carbon tax. But my research led me to a conclusion that many climate campaigners find unacceptable: There is scant evidence to indicate that hurricanes, floods, tornadoes or drought have become more frequent or intense in the U.S. or globally. In fact we are in an era of good fortune when it comes to extreme weather. This is a topic I’ve studied and published on as much as anyone over two decades. My conclusion might be wrong, but I think I’ve earned the right to share this research without risk to my career.</span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Instead, my research was under constant attack for years by activists, journalists and politicians. In 2011 writers in the journal Foreign Policy signaled that some accused me of being a “climate-change denier.” I earned the title, the authors explained, by “questioning certain graphs presented in IPCC reports.” That an academic who raised questions about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in an area of his expertise was tarred as a denier reveals the groupthink at work.</span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Yet I was right to question the IPCC’s 2007 report, which included a graph purporting to show that disaster costs were rising due to global temperature increases. The graph was later revealed to have been based on invented and inaccurate information, as I documented in my book “The Climate Fix.” The insurance industry scientist Robert-Muir Wood of Risk Management Solutions had smuggled the graph into the IPCC report. He explained in a public debate with me in London in 2010 that he had included the graph and misreferenced it because he expected future research to show a relationship between increasing disaster costs and rising temperatures.</span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">When his research was eventually published in 2008, well after the IPCC report, it concluded the opposite: “We find insufficient evidence to claim a statistical relationship between global temperature increase and normalized catastrophe losses.” Whoops.</span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">The IPCC never acknowledged the snafu, but subsequent reports got the science right: There is not a strong basis for connecting weather disasters with human-caused climate change.</span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Yes, storms and other extremes still occur, with devastating human consequences, but history shows they could be far worse. No Category 3, 4 or 5 hurricane has made landfall in the U.S. since Hurricane Wilma in 2005, by far the longest such period on record. This means that cumulative economic damage from hurricanes over the past decade is some $70 billion less than the long-term average would lead us to expect, based on my research with colleagues. This is good news, and it should be OK to say so. Yet in today’s hyper-partisan climate debate, every instance of extreme weather becomes a political talking point.</span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">For a time I called out politicians and reporters who went beyond what science can support, but some journalists won’t hear of this. In 2011 and 2012, I pointed out on my blog and social media that the lead climate reporter at the New York Times , Justin Gillis, had mischaracterized the relationship of climate change and food shortages, and the relationship of climate change and disasters. His reporting wasn’t consistent with most expert views, or the evidence. In response he promptly blocked me from his Twitter feed. Other reporters did the same.</span></i></span><br /></strong><br /><div><strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></strong></div><strong><div><span style="font-weight: 400;">The excerpts from the <b>Wall Street Journal</b> article by extreme weather expert, <b>Dr. Roger Pielke Jr,</b> are published by <b>Marc Morano</b> in his <b>Climate Depot</b> blog:</span></div></strong><br /><br />http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/12/03/extreme-weather-expert-dr-roger-pielke-jr-my-unhappy-life-as-a-climate-heretic/http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/12/extreme-weather-expert-roger-pielke-jr.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-8824688818601562084Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:12:00 +00002016-11-28T20:29:32.862+01:00climate changeglobal warmingArizona University climate change specialist: Ten years from now humans do not exist anymoreThe end is near! <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/86778981/climate-change-specialist-predicts-human-extinction-in-10-years">Ten years from now humans do not exist anymore</a> if we are to believe <b>University of Arizona</b>&nbsp;"climate specialist",&nbsp;emeritus professor <b>Guy McPherson</b>:<br /><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">The University of Arizona emeritus professor says in 10&nbsp;years, humans will cease to exist. Abrupt rises in temperature have us on course for&nbsp;the sixth mass extinction -&nbsp;similar to one that happened about 252 million years ago that culminated in the "great dying".</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">That event was the&nbsp;worst of the mass extinction events in our planet's&nbsp;history and saw all complex life cease, leaving microbes and fungi to rule the planet.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">"I think we are heading for something like that this time around, too," McPherson said.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">"I just don't see how very complex, very complicated organisms that depend upon so many other species, such as humans, I just&nbsp;don't see how we get through that."</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i><span style="color: black;"><b>PS</b></span><br /><br />For&nbsp; those interested in other predictions of apocalyptic events, here is one list:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_eventshttp://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/11/arizona-university-climate-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-4872213891731921593Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:03:00 +00002016-11-15T15:03:18.684+01:00climate changeenvironmentenvironmental policyglobal warmingObamaTrumpUSTrump´s realism on environmental policy is most welcome after Obama´s crusading<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Donald Trump´s</b> realism and pragmatism with regard to global warming and environmental policy is most welcome after <b>Obama´s</b> ideological crusading. Trump is actually very close to&nbsp;what <b>Bjorn Lomborg</b>&nbsp;and the <b>Copenhagen Consensus</b> has been propagating.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><b>John Tierney</b> summarizes in <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/trump-and-science-14856.html">an article</a> in the <b>City Journal</b>: </span><i><br /><span style="color: black;"></span></i></span><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span><span style="color: blue;"><i>Trump has vowed to ignore the Paris international climate agreement that committed the U.S. to reduce greenhouse emissions. That prospect appalls environmentalists but cheers those of us who consider the agreement an enormously expensive way to achieve very little. Trump’s position poses a financial threat to wind-power producers and other green-energy companies that rely on federal subsidies to survive.</i></span><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">During the campaign, </span></i><a href="http://sciencedebate.org/20answers" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">DebateScience.org</span></i></a><i><span style="color: blue;">, a consortium of science groups, submitted a questionnaire to the candidates. Hillary Clinton responded to a question about climate change by calling it a “defining challenge of our time” and promising to make America the “clean energy superpower of the 21st century.” Steering clear of this litany of green promises, Trump said merely that there was still “much that needs to be investigated” about climate change. Instead of promising to install a half-billion new solar panels, as Clinton promised to do, Trump offered the kind of perspective found in the </span></i><a href="http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/copenhagen-consensus-iii" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">Copenhagen Consensus</span></i></a><i><span style="color: blue;">, a group of prominent economists who have concluded that other problems are far more pressing than climate change.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">“Perhaps the best use of our limited financial resources,” Trump said, “should be in dealing with making sure that every person in the world has clean water.&nbsp;Perhaps we should focus on eliminating lingering diseases around the world like malaria.&nbsp; Perhaps we should focus on efforts to increase food production to keep pace with an ever-growing world population.&nbsp; Perhaps we should be focused on developing energy sources and power production that alleviates the need for dependence on fossil fuels.&nbsp; We must decide on how best to proceed so that we can make lives better, safer and more prosperous.”</span></i><b></b><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/11/trumps-realism-on-environmental-policy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-3113354806559014551Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:01:00 +00002016-11-12T19:25:52.138+01:00climate changeCOP22global warmingUNThe Trump presidency: UN climate bureacracy still in a state of denial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKmANHWyDd8/WCdS0Un7efI/AAAAAAAAgEM/_wt0GJrJPU8ENu1-MyJFEpRO7ZLZVVwuwCLcB/s1600/30902440186_72b1a506ae_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKmANHWyDd8/WCdS0Un7efI/AAAAAAAAgEM/_wt0GJrJPU8ENu1-MyJFEpRO7ZLZVVwuwCLcB/s320/30902440186_72b1a506ae_b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />I was curious about how the vast <b>UN </b>climate brureacracy has reacted to <b>Donald Trump´s</b> election:<br />A search for "<b>Trump</b>" on the <b>COP22 </b>site produces an <b><a href="http://newsroom.unfccc.int/search.aspx?search=Trump">empty page</a>!</b><br /><br />http://newsroom.unfccc.int/search.aspx?search=Trump<br /><br />The UN climate change establishment is&nbsp;obviously&nbsp;still in&nbsp;a state of denial, but they will soon wake up to the hard&nbsp;reality ... <br /><br />Here is e.g. what is going to happen to the <b>US</b> energy policy, <a href="https://www.greatagain.gov/policy/energy-independence.html">according to the Trump team</a>:<br /><h2><i><span style="color: blue;">Energy Independence</span></i></h2><i><span style="color: blue;">The Trump Administration will make America energy independent. &nbsp;Our energy policies will make full use of our domestic energy sources, including traditional and renewable energy sources.&nbsp; America will unleash an energy revolution that will transform us into a net energy exporter, leading to the creation of millions of new jobs, while protecting the country’s most valuable resources – our clean air, clean water, and natural habitats. America is sitting on a treasure trove of untapped energy. In fact, America possesses more combined coal, oil, and natural gas resources than any other nation on Earth. These resources represent trillions of dollars in economic output and countless American jobs, particularly for the poorest Americans.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Rather than continuing the current path to undermine and block America’s fossil fuel producers, the Trump Administration will encourage the production of these resources by opening onshore and offshore leasing on federal lands and waters. We will streamline the permitting process for all energy projects, including the billions of dollars in projects held up by President Obama, and rescind the job-destroying executive actions under his Administration. &nbsp;We will end the war on coal, and rescind the coal mining lease moratorium, the excessive Interior Department stream rule, and conduct a top-down review of all anti-coal regulations issued by the Obama Administration.&nbsp; We will eliminate the highly invasive "Waters of the US" rule, and scrap the $5 trillion dollar Obama-Clinton Climate Action Plan and the Clean Power Plan and prevent these unilateral plans from increasing monthly electric bills by double-digits without any measurable effect on Earth’s climate.&nbsp; Energy is the lifeblood of modern society. It is the industry that fuels all other industries.&nbsp; We will lift the restrictions on American energy, and allow this wealth to pour into our communities. It’s all upside: more jobs, more revenues, more wealth, higher wages, and lower energy prices.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">The Trump Administration is firmly committed to conserving our wonderful natural resources and beautiful natural habitats. America’s environmental agenda will be guided by true specialists in conservation, not those with radical political agendas.&nbsp; We will refocus the EPA on its core mission of ensuring clean air, and clean, safe drinking water for all Americans.&nbsp; It will be a future of conservation, of prosperity, and of great success.</span></i><br /><br /><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-trump-presidency-un-climate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-4909296439313030503Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:14:00 +00002016-11-10T22:21:12.654+01:00climate changeDonal Trumpenvironmentglobal warmingUSThe Trump presidency is the best thing that could happen for solving real environmental problems<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HCmFyYfPjDc/WCTkXnMPynI/AAAAAAAAgCs/OqKg69rZkPUqhsyPVnTZOLubjXTlp8QBQCLcB/s1600/general%2Bview%2B%25281%2Bof%2B1%2529-29.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HCmFyYfPjDc/WCTkXnMPynI/AAAAAAAAgCs/OqKg69rZkPUqhsyPVnTZOLubjXTlp8QBQCLcB/s320/general%2Bview%2B%25281%2Bof%2B1%2529-29.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><br /><br />The <b>Trump </b>presidency is the best thing that&nbsp;has happened&nbsp;for the advancement of real environmental goals. By finally putting an end to the global warming hoax, the <b>United States</b> will lead the way in working for a better and cleaner environment. The billions of dollars that have been&nbsp;wasted in order to&nbsp;"combat climate change" will now be used for meaningful environmental projects:<br /><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Trump’s election also has upended the global near-consensus on climate policy, given his skepticism of global warming and embrace of the coal industry.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">The United States has been the indispensable nation concerning global warming politics since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. Environmentalists had hoped the Paris Agreement of December 2015 was the final nail in the coffin of climate skeptics and locked in a permanent, binding agreement curtailing emissions – and future fossil fuel development – for the rest of the century.</span></i><br /><div style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0 12px 12px 0; padding: 0 10px 0 0; position: relative; width: 300px;"><div class="RC-AD RC-AD-BOX-MOBILE_2"></div></div><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: blue;">Enter Donald Trump. He is the only candidate to become a head of government in the past several years who rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. Between calling that science “a hoax” and actively supporting the U.S. coal industry’s recovery, his ascent could result in the U S. withdrawal from the 1992 Climate Convention Treaty, which underpins the Paris Agreement.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">It’s difficult to underestimate how large a political earthquake this would be for many of the world’s left-leaning political classes. The primary focus of European industrial and foreign policy in the last 20 years has been built around climate change treaties, while China has dramatically adjusted its energy production system to come into alignment with U.S. and other developed-economy climate goals. Now, the U.S. will likely entirely reverse its stance, possibly putting China’s planned economy under duress.</span></i><br /><div><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="color: black;">Read the entire article <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/11/10/trumps_election_jolts_energy_and_environmental_policy_132312.html">here</a></span></div><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-trump-presidency-is-best-thing-that.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-1463009326621788827Wed, 09 Nov 2016 20:47:00 +00002016-11-09T23:37:28.750+01:00electionTrumpUSMichael Goodwin on the Trump voters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QnC4CR_iFic/WCOMxNz5hnI/AAAAAAAAgCY/vItE-3SKpPEReghb2IS-TmV977gIxtLJwCLcB/s1600/general%2Bview%2B%25281%2Bof%2B1%2529-12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QnC4CR_iFic/WCOMxNz5hnI/AAAAAAAAgCY/vItE-3SKpPEReghb2IS-TmV977gIxtLJwCLcB/s400/general%2Bview%2B%25281%2Bof%2B1%2529-12.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b><br /></b><b>Michael Goodwin´s</b> column in the <b>New York Post</b> is worth reading. Here is an excerpt:<br /><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Trump voters had the courage of their conviction to go against all their betters, all the poobahs and petty potentates of politics, industry and, above all, the fraudulent hucksters of the national liberal media.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">And who, at this extraordinary juncture, dares say that Trump is not worthy of victory and of the salute of his countrymen? He has done what nobody thought he could, overcoming the doubts and scoffs every incredible step of the way.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">No candidate in modern times and perhaps ever has suffered such abuse at the hands of the dominant culture. Virtually every day, nearly all the front pages and broadcasters in the entire country vilified him in an attempt to destroy him.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">The late-night comics made fun of him like so much trailer trash, Wall Street saw him as a threat, Hollywood looked down on him and even the pope added his two cents of disdain.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">It was dirty pool, against any standard of fairness and decency, but that was not the would-be assassins’ biggest mistake. It was that failing to destroy Trump, the elite smart set unleashed its contempt on his supporters.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">The effect was the opposite of what was intended. Instead of demoralizing the Trumpsters, the nonstop attacks hardened them and made them more determined to finish what they had started.</span></i><br /><div><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: blue;"></span></i><b></b><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><span style="color: black;">Read the entire column <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/09/trump-victory-is-a-win-for-the-little-guy-over-the-elite/">here</a></span><br /><br /><b>PS</b><br /><br /><b>Steve Hilton´s</b> column on <b>Fox News</b> is another excellent read:<br /><br />http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/11/09/trumps-incredible-victory-is-second-brexit-only-better.html</div><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/11/michael-goodwin-on-trump-voters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-7390968529041174098Wed, 09 Nov 2016 10:58:00 +00002016-11-09T12:12:02.074+01:00Donal TrumpelectionUSMorning news<div style="text-align: center;">After <b>Brexit</b>, now this:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8B2YfP6V8Lw/WCMAHNsCo6I/AAAAAAAAgCI/V45DLvo5gQwsJpKkV57P-OhGJpKCn0wZQCLcB/s1600/general%2Bview%2B%25281%2Bof%2B1%2529-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="197" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8B2YfP6V8Lw/WCMAHNsCo6I/AAAAAAAAgCI/V45DLvo5gQwsJpKkV57P-OhGJpKCn0wZQCLcB/s320/general%2Bview%2B%25281%2Bof%2B1%2529-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The polls, the mainstream media and&nbsp;the pundits were</div><div style="text-align: center;">all wrong! <br /><br /></div>http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/11/morning-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-8935670627909183724Tue, 08 Nov 2016 20:02:00 +00002016-11-08T21:02:54.200+01:00empireEUEU - the European empire - is doomed to fail<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cDhIVGqi5eU/WCIuglg6X9I/AAAAAAAAgBw/ceU0VPtOeuAvXV44fO611K8XHDhMTqt9QCLcB/s1600/general%2Bview%2B%25281%2Bof%2B1%2529-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cDhIVGqi5eU/WCIuglg6X9I/AAAAAAAAgBw/ceU0VPtOeuAvXV44fO611K8XHDhMTqt9QCLcB/s400/general%2Bview%2B%25281%2Bof%2B1%2529-4.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div><i><span style="color: blue;">The remains of one failed empire - The Forum Romanum in a 1890s photograph.</span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: blue;">One wonders what will remain of the EU headquarters in Brussels a hundred</span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: blue;">years from now?</span></i></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />The Dutch historian <b>Thierry Baudet</b> has written&nbsp;an excellent&nbsp;article about the failure of the <b>European Union</b> empire. <br /><br />Here is an excerpt: <br /><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">The idea that nationalism leads to war while European unification promotes peace is therefore false. And let’s not forget that Europe has not been at “peace” over the last 50 years. During most of that period, the countries of Europe were engaged in a fight to the death with the Soviet Union, which was once again the expression of yet another anti-national philosophy – in this case communism. As the Communist Manifesto insisted, “Working men have no country.”</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">As you might expect, today’s attempt to bring about political unity in Europe is a major source of tensions. The political landscape in virtually every country in Europe has now been marked by the emergence of increasingly powerful parties that are opposed to the established order. </span></i><br /><h4><i><span style="color: blue;">Nationalism makes democracy possible</span></i></h4><i><span style="color: blue;">Distrust of the South is increasingly prevalent in Northern Europe, and vice-versa. Here again, it is not nationalism but the European project which is the source of the conflict. It follows that we should seek to create a Europe that is radically different to the current EU.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">What we need is a Europe without a central regime: a Europe comprised of nation states, which are not afraid of national differences, and willing to cooperate with each other. The authority of nation states over their own borders should be restored, so that they themselves can decide who they want to allow in their territory. </span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">In the service of their economic interest, they should opt for flexible visa regimes, which will nonetheless allow them to keep control of crime and immigration. We will also have to dissolve the euro to give nation states some monetary breathing space so that they can once again set their own interest rates in response to local conditions. Finally, we will have to get rid of harmonisation which undermines diversity.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Far from being a source of conflict, nationalism is the force that makes democracy possible. Without this unifying force, parliaments would be unable to take legitimate decisions. As the example of Belgium has shown, a lack of national unity can make the administration of a country extremely difficult. The irrational fear of nationalism could ultimately result in the establishment of a restrictive empire in Brussels. The time has come to call a halt and restore the nation state.</span></i><br /><div><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="color: black;">Read the entire article<a href="http://www.voxeurop.eu/en/content/author/743191-thierry-baudet"> here</a></span><b></b><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike><i></i></strike></div><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/11/eu-european-empire-is-doomed-to-fail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-8535899245360098575Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:36:00 +00002016-09-13T15:23:27.936+02:00climate changeglobal warmingNew York TimesUSLoss making New York Times is planning to intensify its global warming propagandaThe loss making&nbsp;<b>New York Times</b> is planning to<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/jobs/nyt-climate-change-editor.html?_r=0"> intensify its global warming scare&nbsp;propaganda:</a><br /><h1 class="title"><i><span style="color: blue;">The New York Times is looking for a climate change editor</span></i></h1><div class="deck"></div><div class="summary"><i><span style="color: blue;">Drone footage that shows </span></i><i><span style="color: blue;">Greenland melting away</span></i><i><span style="color: blue;">. Long narratives about the plight of climate refugees, from </span></i><i><span style="color: blue;">Louisiana</span></i><i><span style="color: blue;"> to </span></i><i><span style="color: blue;">Bolivia</span></i><i><span style="color: blue;"> and beyond. A series on </span></i><i><span style="color: blue;">the California drought</span></i><i><span style="color: blue;">. </span></i><i><span style="color: blue;">Color-coded maps</span></i><i><span style="color: blue;"> that show how hot it could be in 2060.</span></i></div><div class="summary"><i><span style="color: blue;">The New York Times is a leader in covering climate change. Now The Times is ramping up its coverage to make the most important story in the world even more relevant, urgent and accessible to a huge audience around the globe.</span></i></div><div class="summary"><i><span style="color: blue;">We are looking for an editor to lead this dynamic new group. We want someone with an entrepreneurial streak who is obsessed with finding new ways to connect with readers and new ways to tell this vital story.</span></i></div><div class="summary"><i><span style="color: blue;">The coverage should encompass: the science of climate change; the politics of climate debates; the technological race to find solutions; the economic consequences of climate change; and profiles of fascinating characters enmeshed in the issues.</span></i></div><div class="summary"><i><span style="color: blue;">The coverage should include journalism in a variety of formats: video, photography, newsletters, features, podcasts, conferences and more. The unit should make strategic decisions about which forms are top priorities and which are not.</span></i></div><div class="summary"><i><span style="color: blue;">The climate editor will collaborate with many others throughout the newsroom, but will operate apart from the current department structure, with no print obligations. --</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /><div class="title"><span style="color: blue;"><i>To Apply</i></span></div><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /><div class="block"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Applicants should submit a resume, examples of previous work, and a memo outlining their vision for coverage to Dean Baquet and Sam Dolnick </i><strong><i>by Sept. 19</i></strong><i>. This vision is the most important part of the application. It should be specific and set clear priorities. Some important questions to wrestle with:</i></span></div><span style="color: blue;"></span><li><span style="color: blue;"><i>What audiences should we be focusing on?</i></span></li><span style="color: blue;"><li><i>How will our coverage fit into their lives, and how will they experience it?</i></li><li><i>How will we distinguish our coverage from other journalism in this space?</i></li><li><i>What will be the main vehicles for the coverage? Features? News? Videos?</i></li><li><i>Should there be a signature voice attached to our climate coverage? Who?</i></li><li><i>How will you make a difficult subject interesting and accessible?</i></li><li><i>What stories are we willing not to do?</i></li><li><i>What should the team look like to get it done?</i></li><div class="app"><i>This non-Guild position is open to internal and external candidates. Applications should be sent to </i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><i>nytrecruit@nytimes.com</i></a><i>.</i><br /><i><br /></i><b><span style="color: black;">PS</span></b><br /><span style="color: black;">I´ll bet that the well paid job goes to the person who answers the penultimate question by demanding that the <b>NYT</b> should, if possible, even more emphatically&nbsp;refuse to publish any stories criticizing the global warming hysteria ... </span></div><div class="app"><i><br /></i></div><div class="app"><i><br /></i></div></span></div>http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/09/loss-making-new-york-times-is-planning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-8369390439057371058Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:11:00 +00002016-08-26T14:11:57.954+02:00climate changeglobal warmingCosmopolitan´s list of global warming calamities<span style="color: black;"><b>Cosmopolitan </b>, "t</span><span style="color: black;">he Women's Magazine for Fashion, Sex Advice, Dating Tips, and ..." has published <a href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a63279/climate-change-consequences/">a list</a> of what future trendy readers will have to&nbsp;sacrifice&nbsp;as a result&nbsp;of&nbsp;human-caused global warming: </span><br /><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Unless our society can curb human emissions, here are 10 things that could be gone in the next century:</span></i><br /><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /><div class="ad-gpt-breaker-container"><div class="ad-gpt-breaker ad-article-breaker-mobile " data-id="gpt-ad-vertical-top-mobile" style="margin-left: -503px; margin-right: -503px;"><div class="ad-article-breaker-text"><i><span style="color: blue;">Advertisement - Continue Reading Below</span></i></div><div class="gpt-tag" id="gpt-ad-vertical-top-mobile"><span style="color: blue;"><b><i>1. Your future income.</i></b><span style="color: #1a0dab;">The Women's Magazine for Fashion, Sex </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><b><i>1. Your</i></b></span></div></div></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><span style="color: blue;"><i><b>1. Your future income.</b></i></span><br /><b><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: blue;">2. Pretty much all of America's national parks.</span></i></b><i><span style="color: blue;">&nbsp;</span></i></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">3. Millions of people.</span></i></b></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><b><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /></b></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">4. The Maldives.</span></i></b><i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">5. Coffee!!!!!! </span></i></b></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><b><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /></b></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">6. Wine.</span></i></b></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><b><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /></b></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">7. And chocolate.</span></i></b></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><b><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /></b></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">8. Wild animals.</span></i></b></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><b><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /></b></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">9. This village in Alaska.</span></i></b><i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /></div><div class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">10. Most of our glaciers.</span></i></b><br /><b><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i></b><span style="color: black;">Who gives a damn about the <b>Maldives </b>or a village in <b>Alaska</b>, but a world without coffee, wine and chocolate must be really intolerable! </span></div><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/08/cosmopolitans-list-of-global-warming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-1546847396275541026Thu, 25 Aug 2016 02:29:00 +00002016-08-25T04:29:16.353+02:00Economist Joseph Stiglitz on the failure of the euro<b>The Telegraph´s Jeremy Warner</b> has a good piece about a new book by economist <b>Joseph Stiglitz</b>:<br /><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">As the economist Joseph&nbsp;Stiglitz, notes in a compellingly argued new book on the failure of the European project – The Euro, and its threat to the future of Europe – on virtually every occasion when voters have been directly consulted, they have rejected the idea of further integration.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">And in each case, whether it was introduction of the Euro or reform of the constitution, they have been ignored. --</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i><span class="m_first-letter"><i><span style="color: blue;">S</span></i></span><i><span style="color: blue;">ix years after the start of the Eurozone crisis, the economy is still deep in the doldrums, with output in some nations a pale shadow of its former self, shockingly high levels of youth unemployment and what growth there is now almost wholly dependent on the drip feed of central bank money printing.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">How did things get so bad? In his book, Stiglitz convincingly demonstrates that the root cause of virtually all Europe’s economic and political ills was the premature introduction of the euro.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">In itself, this is not a particularly new idea, but Stiglitz lends it virtually irrefutable intellectual backing.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">To begin with, things seemed to go swimmingly, with all member states apparently growing richer together. But far from leading to convergence among national economies, the single currency was beneath the surface driving a dangerously destabilising process of divergence.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Structurally, economies were growing apart, not together, with the Eurozone ever more precariously divided into surplus and deficit nations.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i><span style="color: black;">Read the entire column <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/08/23/the-euro-has-destroyed-the-eu-and-led-directly-to-brexit/">here</a></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/08/economist-joseph-stiglitz-on-failure-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-5859336010727527561Fri, 12 Aug 2016 09:55:00 +00002016-08-12T11:55:02.471+02:00BrexitEUNew ZealandSwitzerlandSmall is beautiful - On why Switzerland is successfulThe <b>New Zealand</b> based columnist <b>Oliver Hartwich</b><a href="http://describes%20why%20the%20swiss%20are%20successful/"> describes why the </a><b><a href="http://describes%20why%20the%20swiss%20are%20successful/">Swiss </a></b><a href="http://describes%20why%20the%20swiss%20are%20successful/">are successful</a>:<br /><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /><div style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">"If you are looking at Switzerland from outside, you cannot help but wonder how this small piece of central Europe – mountainous and with no obvious strategic advantages over its larger neighbours – made itself a world-class economy.</span></i></div><div style="color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">Well, for a start it probably helped that the Swiss never became part of the EU. Where other European countries succumbed to the idea of an integrated continent, the Swiss stubbornly remained independent and did their own thing. And it worked well, so there is hope for Britain after Brexit. --</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">For many years, Switzerland has been ranked as the world’s most competitive country by the World Economic Forum (New Zealand is 16th).</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">The key to Switzerland’s success is its decentralised nature. If every tier of government has income tax-raising powers, and if the various tiers of government are small in size, it is not difficult to imagine what this set-up will do to economic development. As councils and cantons can feel the results of their political decisions in their own pockets, of course they will pursue growth-friendly policies. As they realise that their residents are not just inhabitants but taxpayers, of course they will try to keep them happy.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">Switzerland has chosen a path to economic development that is diametrically opposed to New Zealand’s and to most other developed economies. Instead of trying more centrally controlled policies, Switzerland has opted for the principle of subsidiarity. That means relegating decision-making to the lowest tier possible.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">From a New Zealand perspective, the Swiss approach to governance is the polar opposite of what we have been trying so far. But even we have to realise that Swiss government yields much better results than we could ever hope for.</span></i><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;"><i>In a nutshell, Switzerland means that big does not always mean better and that small can be quite beautiful. It also demonstrates government needs performance incentives in order to, well,</i></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;"><i> perform. That is not so surprising if you are in business but for government, apparently, it’s a big discovery."</i></span></div><div style="color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0 0 1em;"><br /></div><div style="color: #444444; direction: ltr; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0 0 1em;"><br /></div><br /><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/08/small-is-beautiful-on-why-switzerland.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-5562068652118347106Tue, 02 Aug 2016 10:55:00 +00002016-08-02T12:55:28.184+02:00Germanyrefugee crisisDr. Oliwer Hartwich: "Germany and Merkel are often praised for ´saving´ refugees. The opposite is true"<b>New Zealand</b> based&nbsp;political and economic commentator&nbsp;<b>Dr. Oliwer Hartwich</b> strongly criticizes <b>Angela Merkel´s</b> refugee policy: <br /><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Germany and Merkel are often praised for “saving” refugees. The opposite is true. They have lured refugees onto a dangerous route and into an economic situation that offers few of them any positive perspective. They have encouraged these poor Syrians to give all their savings to dubious people traffickers and board unsafe boats. And along this route, thousands of refugees have drowned and died.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">As Sir Paul Collier, the Oxford economist and former World Bank Director, said it would have been much better to deal with Syrian refugees in those safe countries bordering Syria: Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. If it had wanted to do something good, Germany could have helped to pay for these camps. But it did not.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">By the way, this solution is actually the one prescribed by international law under the Geneva Convention and the Dublin Regulation. There has long been the “first country of asylum” principle. This means that countries are expected to take refugees fleeing from persecution in a neighbouring state.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Germany has no border with Syria, and there are plenty of safe countries between Germany and Syria. Even Austria is relatively civilised. Germany should have never signalled its willingness to accept all Syrian refugees.</span></i><br /><br />Read the entire article <a href="https://oliverhartwich.com/2016/07/30/a-human-tsunami/">here</a><br /><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/08/dr-oliwer-hartwich-germany-and-merkel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-531596477129573465Sun, 31 Jul 2016 08:02:00 +00002016-07-31T10:02:57.198+02:00OSCEPutinUkrainewarWeak OSCE observers in Ukraine only in action during banking hours - without binoculars!<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="219" data-total-count="219">The <b>Putin</b> sponsored war against <b>Ukraine</b> goes on uninterrupted,&nbsp;while the <b>OSCE </b>cease-fire observers - nicknamed the "deaf, dumb and blind" by locals - limit their weak presence to banking hours:</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="219" data-total-count="219"><br /></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="219" data-total-count="219"><i><span style="color: blue;">AVDIIVKA, Ukraine — As the afternoon shadows grow long, nocturnal creatures begin to stir. A stray cat rises from a nap, stretches and trots off to hunt. Overhead, swallows swoop and screech in the deepening twilight.</span></i></div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="92" data-total-count="311"><i><span style="color: blue;">Soon, the human inhabitants of this town in eastern Ukraine set about their evening rituals.</span></i></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="202" data-total-count="513"><i><span style="color: blue;">Green-clad soldiers strap on their helmets and load their guns, while white-clad European cease-fire observers pocket their notebooks, climb into their cars and drive away. And then the fighting starts.</span></i></div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="213" data-total-count="726"><i><span style="color: blue;">This improbable routine between soldiers and monitors with the </span></i><a href="http://www.osce.org/"><i><span style="color: blue;">Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe</span></i></a><i><span style="color: blue;"> plays out nightly, illustrating the glum quagmire of the Ukraine war, now entering its third year.</span></i></div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="233" data-total-count="959"><i><span style="color: blue;">“I never see them here at night,” said Tatyana Petrova, whose apartment looks over a parking lot that is a frequent listening post for the monitors. “In the evening, I look out and they are gone, and then the concert starts.”</span></i><b></b><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="268" data-total-count="5171"><i><span style="color: blue;">--</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">“We call them deaf, dumb and blind,” said the Ukrainian military nurse who ordered the observers out of her field hospital. She offered only her nickname, Romashka, a typical practice for soldiers here. “They know nothing. They see nothing. They are too soft.”</span></i></div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="378" data-total-count="5549"><i><span style="color: blue;">On a recent afternoon in Avdiivka, whose prewar population of 35,000 people has decreased by about half, monitors wrapped up at the close of business at 5 p.m., as usual. By and large confined to their hotels after dark, monitors say they pass the time watching television, surfing the internet or chatting with colleagues. They can listen for violations from inside the hotels.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="378" data-total-count="5549">The <b>Russians </b>even have forbidden the "deaf, dumb and blind" to use binoculars! :<br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: blue;">Emblematic of the group’s weak hand, one key mission of observers stationed at two crossing posts on the Russian-Ukrainian border has conceded to Russian pressure not to use binoculars, lest the observers observe too much.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i><span style="color: black;">Read the entire <b>New York Times</b> article <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/world/europe/ukraine-war-osce-observers.html">here</a>.</span></div>http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/07/weak-osce-observers-in-ukraine-only-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-371088658444283259Fri, 29 Jul 2016 09:14:00 +00002016-07-29T11:14:11.241+02:00Catholic churchChristianityIslamself-defenseterrorFinally, a priest who dares to speak out: "A Christian Duty in the Face of Terror"<a href="http://www.lifezette.com/faithzette/christian-duty-in-face-of-murder/">This article</a> by the <b>New York</b> priest, Father <b>George Rutler</b>, should be read by all people who still care about <b>Western civilization</b>. Here are extracts from the article:<br /><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">After another&nbsp;devastating ISIS attack in France, this time against a priest in his 80s while he was saying Mass, the answer isn’t just, “Do nothing.” As racism distorts race and sexism corrupts sex — so does pacifism affront peace.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Turning the other cheek is the counsel Christ gave in the instance of an individual when morally insulted: Humility conquers pride. It has nothing to do with self-defense.</span></i><br /><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">The Catholic Church has always maintained that the defiance of an evil force is not only a right but an obligation. Its Catechism (cf. #2265) cites St. Thomas Aquinas: “Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another’s life, the common good of the family or of the State.”</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">A father is culpable if he does not protect his family.&nbsp;A bishop has the same duty as a spiritual father of his sons and daughters in the church, just as the civil state has as its first responsibility the maintenance of the “tranquility of order” through self-defense.--</span></i><b></b><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Were it not for Charles Martel at Tours in 732 and Jan Sobieski at the gates of Vienna in 1683 — and most certainly had Pope Saint Pius V not enlisted Andrea Doria and Don Juan at Lepanto in 1571 — we would not be here now.&nbsp; No Western nations as we know them —&nbsp;no universities, no modern science, no human rights —&nbsp;would exist.--</span></i><br /><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">The dormancy of Islam until recent times, however, has obscured the threat that this poses — especially to a Western civilization that has grown flaccid in virtue and ignorant of its own moral foundations.</span></i><br /><strong><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i></strong><i><span style="color: blue;">The shortcut to handling the crisis is to deny that it exists.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">On the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, there were over 60 speeches, and yet not one of them mentioned ISIS.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Vice has destroyed countless individual souls, but in the decline of civilizations, weakness has done more harm than vice. --</span></i><br /><i></i><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">The priest in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvrary in Normandy, France, was not the first to die at the altar — and he will not be the last.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">In his old age, the priest embodied a civilization that has been betrayed by a generation whose hymn was John Lennon's "Imagine" — that there was neither heaven nor hell but "above us only sky" and "all the people living for today." When reality intrudes, they can only leave teddy bears and balloons at the site of a carnage they call "inexplicable."</span></i><b></b><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/07/finally-priest-who-dares-to-speak-out.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-4465567584188239938Wed, 27 Jul 2016 06:19:00 +00002016-07-27T22:33:38.023+02:00climate changeglobal warmingHypocrite Leonardo DiCaprio at his annual St. Tropez party: "We are the last generation that has a chance to stop climate change"<b>Leonardo DiCaprio</b> and the usual&nbsp;celebrity crowd have again been <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/07/21/leo-dicaprio-raises-45-million-global-warming-gala-last-generation-can-stop-climate-change/">partying in </a><b><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/07/21/leo-dicaprio-raises-45-million-global-warming-gala-last-generation-can-stop-climate-change/">St. Tropez</a></b>. And there is no end to the hypocrisy: <br /><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span><span style="color: blue;">“While we are the first generation that has the technology, the scientific knowledge and the global will to build a truly sustainable economic future for all of humanity — we are the last generation that has a chance to stop climate change before it is too late,” DiCaprio said, according to EcoWatch.</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">The star’s weighty message didn’t dampen the festivities: del Rey and the Weeknd performed while Mariah Carey flitted about the room snapping pictures with her fellow celebrities. --</span><br /><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Dozens of A-list stars made the trek to the French Riviera for the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s annual Gala to Fund Climate and Biodiversity Projects, including U2 frontman Bono, actors Bradley Cooper, Edward Norton, Jonah Hill, Tobey Maguire and Chris Rock and singers Mariah Carey, Lana del Rey and The Weeknd.</span><br /><span style="color: blue;"></span><br /><div class="mobile" id="EmailOptinM"><div class="gf_browser_safari gform_wrapper"><form action="/newsletter-signup/" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post"><div class="gform_footer top_label"><input class="gform_hidden" name="is_submit_1" type="hidden" value="1" /><input class="gform_hidden" name="gform_submit" type="hidden" value="1" /><input class="gform_hidden" name="gform_unique_id" type="hidden" value="" /><input class="gform_hidden" name="gform_target_page_number_1" type="hidden" value="0" /><input class="gform_hidden" name="gform_source_page_number_1" type="hidden" value="1" /><input name="gform_field_values" type="hidden" value="" /></div></form></div></div><span style="color: blue;">The event’s co-chairs included Robert De Niro, Kevin Spacey, Kate Hudson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Cruz, Cate Blanchett and Charlize Theron.</span><br /><br /><b>Breitbart´s Daniel Nussbaum</b> comments: <br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">If just one of the celebrities who attended the event traveled the 12,000-mile round trip from Los Angeles to France by private jet, they would have burned enough fossil fuel to emit approximately 86 tons of carbon dioxide. The average American, for comparison, puts out around 19 tons of carbon dioxide on airline flights per year.</span><br /><b></b>http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/07/hypocrite-leonardo-dicaprio-at-his.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-57122780913551890Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:25:00 +00002016-07-28T10:20:19.323+02:00Angela MerkelBrexitDeutschlandEUGermanymigrationThank you, Angela - Vielen Dank!<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h8T4LMjYhhc/V5dVdi7UB6I/AAAAAAAAfk0/xQ-EwAubza45tj8Fx_zzqe8-WMYAG_iNgCLcB/s1600/general%2Bview%2B%25281%2Bof%2B1%2529-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="593" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h8T4LMjYhhc/V5dVdi7UB6I/AAAAAAAAfk0/xQ-EwAubza45tj8Fx_zzqe8-WMYAG_iNgCLcB/s640/general%2Bview%2B%25281%2Bof%2B1%2529-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: blue;"><b>Vielen Dank, Angela!</b></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><b>Thank you!</b><br /><b>Vielen Dank!</b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /><b>አመሰግናለሁ</b><br /><b>Շնորհակալություն</b><br /><b>Çox sağ ol</b><br /><b>Eskerrik asko</b><br /><b>ধন্যবাদ</b><br /><b>Hvala ti</b><br /><b>Благодаря</b><br /><b>ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတ</b><br /><b>Salamat</b><br /><b>Zikomo</b><br /><b>Aitäh</b><br /><b>Kiitos</b><br /><b>Je vous remercie</b><br /><b>Dankewol</b><br /><b>Tapadh leat</b><br /><b>Grazas</b><br /><b>გმადლობთ</b><br /><b>Ευχαριστώ</b><br /><b>આભાર</b><br /><b>Mèsi</b><br /><b>na gode</b><br /><b>Mahalo</b><br /><b>धन्यवाद</b><br /><b>Ua tsaug rau koj</b><br /><b>Daalụ</b><br /><b>Terima kasih</b><br /><b>Go raibh maith agat</b><br /><b>Þakka þér</b><br /><b>Grazie</b><br /><b>ありがとうございました</b><br /><b>Matur nuwun</b><br /><b>Gràcies</b><br /><b>Рақмет сізге</b><br /><b>អរគុណ</b><br /><b>谢谢</b><br /><b>Spas dikim</b><br /><b>Gratias tibi</b><br /><b>Paldies</b><br /><b>Ačiū</b><br /><b>Dank je</b><br /><b>Dziękuję Ci</b><br /><b>Obrigado</b><br /><b>спасибо</b><br /><b>Tack </b><br /><b>Дякую</b><br /><b>Takk</b><br /><b><br /></b>Background reading:<br /><br />http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/692831/west-paying-blood-folly-politicians<br /><br /><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/07/thank-you-angela-vielen-dank.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-1827171423643346590Sun, 24 Jul 2016 16:15:00 +00002016-07-24T18:15:38.966+02:00dopingIOCOlympic gamesRio OlympicsRussiaThomas BachVladimir PutinPutin is smiling tonight: His friend IOC President Bach fixed Russian participation in the Rio Olympics<span style="color: black;">Russian dictator <b>Vladimir Putin</b> is smiling tonight. His friend, the German <b>Presiden</b>t of the <b>IOC Thomas Bach</b>, did <a href="http://what%20he%20was%20asked%20to%20do/">what he was asked to do</a>: </span><br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: blue;">The Russian flag will be flying at the Summer Olympics, after all, as the International Olympic Committee decided Sunday that athletes from the nation mired in an ongoing drug scandal will be allowed to compete on the sporting world’s largest stage next month in Rio de Janeiro.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Less than two weeks before the start of the Rio Games, the International Olympic Committee ruled against barring Russia from the Summer Olympics but did approve measures that could reduce the number of Russian athletes participating.</span></i> <b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /><br /><a href="http://www.theoaklandpress.com/sports/20160722/ioc-president-thomas-bach-has-sports-personal-links-to-russia-putin">Here</a> is how sports, business and "friendship" mix in Bach´s world: <br /><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Bach has been a regular visitor to Russia in his three years as head of the IOC, both before and after the Sochi Olympics. Putin has also shown himself willing to travel to improve contacts with the IOC, giving a well received speech in 2007 in Guatemala — delivered in English, which is rare for Putin — ahead of the vote which gave Sochi the 2014 Olympics.</span></i><br /><!-- end articleparagraph1.pbo --><!-- start articleparagraph1.pbo --><i><span style="color: blue;"> Since he won Olympic gold in 1976, Bach’s chosen sport of fencing has been transformed, most recently by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, a Putin ally who has pumped large sums of his own money into the sport over eight years as president of the International Fencing Federation.</span></i><br /><!-- end articleparagraph1.pbo --><!-- start articleparagraph1.pbo --><i><span style="color: blue;"> That money has increased the profile of one of the more niche sports on the Olympic program, making for a bigger media presence and glitzier competitions.</span></i><br /><!-- end articleparagraph1.pbo --><!-- start articleparagraph1.pbo --><i><span style="color: blue;"> Bach also has business connections in Russia. After becoming president of the IOC, he kept his other role as chairman of the supervisory board of Weinig, a Germany company which produces woodworking machinery. Weinig, which did not respond to requests for comment, has a strong presence in Russia, with a headquarters near Moscow and offices across the country.</span></i><br /><!-- end articleparagraph1.pbo --><!-- start articleparagraph1.pbo --><i><span style="color: blue;"> Besides Bach, several other influential IOC members have long been sympathetic to Russia.</span></i><br /><strike><br /></strike>http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/07/putin-is-smiling-tonight-his-friend-ioc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-2602073360510204386Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:23:00 +00002016-07-21T16:23:06.451+02:00corruptiondopingFIFAfootballRussiaWorld CupPutin´s mafia state will not host the football World Cup 2018It is becoming&nbsp;more and more obvious&nbsp;that <b>Putin´s</b> mafia state will not host the football <b>World Cup</b> in 2018. <b>Vladimir Putin</b>&nbsp;bought the cup through massive corruption, which in itself&nbsp;should be&nbsp;enough to move the games to a more civilized environment. Now there is <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/ioc-scrutiny-russia-2018-world-cup-host-2927104/">the case of massive Russian state sponsored doping</a>:<br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: blue;">Russia’s hosting of the World Cup is becoming increasingly problematic for FIFA’s leaders after the International Olympic Committee withdrew support for sporting events being staged in the doping-tainted nation.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">The IOC’s move followed this week’s second damning World Anti-Doping Agency report, which accused Russia of state-sponsored doping.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">The scandal landed at FIFA’s door after Russian football&nbsp;was for the first time implicated in the alleged doping cover-up by a country that has been entrusted with football’s most prestigious event in 2018.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, whose department is accused of orchestrating the deception, is also head of the country’s football&nbsp;federation and is a member of FIFA’s ruling council.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Football’s governing body is standing by the 2018 hosts –&nbsp;just as it has done throughout six years of scrutiny since the contentious vote to hand the World Cup to Russia for the first time.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">“Preparations for the World Cup are in full swing,” Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, said Wednesday. “FIFA said yesterday that they are preparing for the World Cup to be held in Russia.”</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">And 2018 is not the only countdown. FIFA is less than 11 months from staging the Confederations Cup, an eight-team warm-up competition, in Russia.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Dick Pound, the former WADA president who authored the earlier report on doping in Russian track and field, said FIFA now has another “credibility issue” to confront following McLaren’s findings.</span></i><b></b><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/07/putins-mafia-state-will-not-host.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-4637974138326149559Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:01:00 +00002016-06-29T18:01:58.328+02:00BrexitEUUKUSThe shame- and brainless John Kerry has been advising David Cameron about ways to overturn Brexit!Here is another<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/29/john-kerry-brexit-could-be-walked-back-david-cameron"> proof</a> that <b>US Secretary of State</b> <b>John Kerry</b> is a walking disaster: <br /><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">The US secretary of state has raised doubts about whether Brexit will ever happen, suggesting most leave campaigners do not truly believe in Britain’s divorce from the EU and do not know how to achieve it. </span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Claiming there were a number of ways in which Thursday’s vote could be “walked back”, </span></i><a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/john-kerry"><i><span style="color: blue;">John Kerry</span></i></a><i><span style="color: blue;">, who visited Downing Street on Monday, said David Cameron was loth to invoke article 50, the EU exit procedure.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></i><br /><aside class="element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded" data-component="rich-link" data-link-name="rich-link-1 | 1"><div class="rich-link tone-analysis--item "><div class="rich-link__container"><div class="rich-link__standfirst u-cf"><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="rich-link__standfirst u-cf"><i><span style="color: blue;">Several scenarios could see the vote overturned, involving either a Labour or Tory prime minister. But all are speculative </span></i></div><div class="rich-link__read-more"><div class="rich-link__arrow"><svg height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g fill-rule="evenodd" fill="none"><path class="rich-link__arrow-icon" d="m 12 0 c -6.627 0 -12 5.373 -12 12 c 0 6.627 5.373 12 12 12 c 6.627 0 12 -5.373 12 -12 c 0 -6.627 -5.373 -12 -12 -12 m 0.21 19 l -0.637 -0.668 l 4.888 -6.326 h -11.465 v -1.01 h 11.465 l -4.888 -6.333 l 0.637 -0.668 l 6.79 7.158 v 0.685 l -6.79 7.157"></path></g></svg>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><span style="color: blue;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></i></div></div><a class="rich-link__link u-faux-block-link__overlay" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/29/uk-voted-for-brexit-but-is-there-a-way-back"></a> </div></div></aside><i><span style="color: blue;">He said the British prime minister felt powerless to “start negotiating a thing that he doesn’t believe in” and “has no idea how he would do it”.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">Apparently referring to Boris Johnson, </span></i><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/28/boris-johnson-tory-leadership-bid-liz-truss"><i><span style="color: blue;">one of the frontrunners to replace Cameron</span></i></a><i><span style="color: blue;">, Kerry added: “And by the way, nor do most of the people who voted to do it.”</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i><span style="color: black;"><b>PS</b></span><br /><br />Fortunately this shame- and brainless politician will soon be out of work.<br /><br />This does not reflect very well on <b>David Cameron</b> either. He should not have put in this way when talking to a US Secretary of State! <br /><br /><div><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: blue;"></span></i><b></b><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i></div><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-shame-and-brainless-john-kerry-has.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-2528167311898801774Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:10:00 +00002016-06-29T12:10:15.532+02:00AustraliaBrexitclimate changeglobal warmingParis agreementCLEXIT after BREXIT!<div style="text-align: center;">Excellent <b>Australian</b> initiative:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>CLEXIT</b> after <b>BREXIT</b>!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Read more about the initiative to get rid of the horrendous<b>&nbsp;Paris</b> climate agreement <a href="http://carbon-sense.com/2016/06/28/clexit/">here</a></div><br /><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/06/clexit-after-brexit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-3461925839655585490Tue, 28 Jun 2016 09:35:00 +00002016-06-28T11:35:34.268+02:00BrexitRichard BransonUKVirginBoycott Billionaire Branson!<b>Richard Branson</b>: <br /><h2><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><i>Billionaire businessman Richard Branson is calling on Parliament to “reject” the “nonbinding” Brexit vote and is demanding a second referendum.</i></span></h2><i><span style="color: blue;">Mr. Branson has insisted the vote was “technically an advisory non-binding referendum for MPs to consider” which should be instantly reconsidered as the public had voted against big business and &nbsp;globalisation.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i><span style="color: black;">Read the entire article <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/28/billionaire-branson-calls-nonbinding-brexit-vote-rejected/">here</a></span><br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i><span style="color: black;">My advice: </span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Boycott Billionaire&nbsp;Branson</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> and his&nbsp;<b>Virgin </b>empire!</span></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><br /><div><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="color: blue;"></span><b></b><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike><i><br /></i></strike></div><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/06/boycott-billionaire-branson.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-5327240621026455391Fri, 24 Jun 2016 15:17:00 +00002016-06-24T17:17:38.812+02:00BrexitEUAfter Brexit people in other EU countries want a referendum<b>UK</b> voters voted out. Now it is clear that people in other <b>EU</b> countries demand the same chance to vote about membership in the failed EU. But <b>Angela Merkel</b> and the othe&nbsp;EU leaders&nbsp;will be&nbsp;doing their utmost in order to prevent that: <br /><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">A recent survey by the Pew Research Centre found that only 38 per cent&nbsp;of France had a favourable view of the EU, marking an astonishing negative shift in attitudes towards Brussels since the 2009 financial crisis that has been mirrored to varying degrees all across Europe.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">A poll last month by Ipsos-MORI found that nearly half of voters in eight big European Union countries want to be able to vote on whether to remain members of the bloc, with a third saying they would opt to leave, if given the choice.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">European leaders moved immediately to stamp down talk of referendums, with Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, warning against “hysterical reactions” and pledging that the remaining EU member states were "determined to keep our unity as 27".</span></i><br /><br />Read the entire article<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/eu-faces-brexit-contagion-as-populist-parties-across-europe-call/"> here</a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/06/after-brexit-people-in-other-eu.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-6455216658096898335Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:10:00 +00002016-06-23T13:10:06.647+02:00BrexitDavid CameronEUEU referendumUKWhat will happen after the British EU Referendum?Whatever the result in today´s <b>EU Referendum</b> will be, this will follow:<br /><br />- The stagnating,&nbsp;undemocratic and corrupted&nbsp;<b>European Union</b> - which is beyond repair - is bound to implode&nbsp;within the next ten or twenty years. <b>Brexit </b>would hasten this process. That´s why many of&nbsp;those, who really care about <b>Europe</b>, have supported the <b>Leave</b> side. <br /><br />- Even if the <b>British </b>decide to stay in the <b>EU</b>, <b>David Cameron</b> will be an utterly&nbsp;diminished leader, not only in the UK, but also in the EU and on a global level. It is difficult to see, how he can stay on as <b>PM</b> after a narrow win for his side.<br /><br />- If the British vote to leave the EU, there is not the slightest chance that Cameron will be able to continue as PM. The way he has chosen to conduct his Remain campaign has been dishonest and divisive. A <b>Conservative</b> backlash is bound to follow. http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/06/what-will-happen-after-british-eu.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180839848044445868.post-1851420394387992228Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:50:00 +00002016-06-23T00:50:53.203+02:00Boris JohnsonBrexitEUUKBoris Johnson on Brexit: The defining moment <div style="text-align: center;">The defining moment of the <b>EU Referendum</b>&nbsp;campaign:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wY3RznQSBfw/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wY3RznQSBfw?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br />http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2016/06/boris-johnson-on-brexit-defining-moment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NNoN)0